Lightning

Inazuma

Synopsis

The story of Kiyoko, a young woman who has successfully managed to make a break with her dysfunctional family who have been trying to arrange a marriage for her with a disagreeable man whom she has rejected.

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Critics reviews

A Mikio Naruse...

The most perfect and moving of Naruse’s family dramas… Though Naruse’s rhythms in LIGHTNING are contemplative, with an unusual number of fades to black that divide the story into movements, the film’s content and performances evoke the family’s underclass status with a physicality verging on vulgarity.